tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530463554584181774.post7621353310642024940..comments2023-05-17T07:53:18.995-04:00Comments on Sycamore Three: The Limits of Mathematical ConsciousnessRobert Heidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07622336432907413984noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530463554584181774.post-36939009245098975872012-01-27T08:21:25.680-05:002012-01-27T08:21:25.680-05:00Robert, I remember your discussing long ago the di...Robert, I remember your discussing long ago the difference between "calculation" and true thinking -- what we could call "ethical thinking."<br /><br />Ethical knowing goes beyond the calculator's question <i>Can I?</i> to ask <i>Should I?</i>, regardless of ability.<br /><br />The Church is just as guilty of delving no deeper than mathematical consciousness, likely owing to the influence of Cartesian thinking.<br /><br />I believe there exists a third level knowing even beyond the ethical, that informs and tempers the others -- spiritual. <br /><br />This third way is by necessity less immediately concrete as the other two; however, without it acknowledging it and seeking it out, ethical consciousness quickly erodes to a white-knuckled moralism, while the mathematical falls prey to the sales-talkers of all things "bigger-better-faster."Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08364951848347792857noreply@blogger.com